Delivery mechanism for printing-presses and the like.



No. 800,766. PATENTED 00T. 3, 1905.

` W. SPALGKHAVER. DELIVERY IVIEOHANISIVI POR PRINTING PRESSES AND THELIKE. v

APPLICATION FILED DEO.21, 1903.

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No. 800,766. PATENTED OCT. 3, 1905.

' W. SPALGKHAVER. 'I

DELIVBRYMEGHANISM FOR PRINTINGYPRESSES AND THE LIKE.

APPLIGATION FILED DBO. 21, 1903.

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anun' No. 800,766. PATENTED 00T. 3, 1905. W. SPALGKIIAVER. DELIVERYMEOHANISM FOR PRINTING PRESSES AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO. 21, 1903.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE- WILLIAM SIJALOKHAVER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT HOE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DELIVERY IVIECHANISIVI FOR PRINTING-PRESSES AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed December 21, 1903. Serial No. 185,981.

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Beit known that I, TILLIAM SPALCKHAVER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, county of Kings, and State of New York. haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Delivery Mechanism forPrin ting-Presses and the Like, fully described and represented in thefollowing specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthe same.

This invention relates to an improved mechanism for delivering a pile ofsheets which is designed especially for printing-presses, but may beused also with sheet-feeding mechanism in other machines.

The especial object of the invention is to provide an improvedconstruction of that class in which a plurality of delivery mechanismsare used and the required number of sheets countcd, delivered, andbundled by the different delivery and bundling mechanisms successively,the feed of the sheets to the different delivery mechanisms beingcontrolled and the sheets counted by suitable means, as by acam-controlled switch, as shown, for instance, in United States LettersPatent Nos. 700,238 and 745,385.

For a full understanding of the invention a detailed description of aconstruction embodying the same in the preferred forms will now be givenin connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, and the features forming the invention will then bespecifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view showing my invention asapplied to a webprinting machine with two deliveries. Fig. 2 is an endelevation of one of the deliveries and bundling mechanisms in thepreferred form for delivering the sheets on edge.

3 is a rear elevation looking to the lef/t in Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 areviews similar to Figs. 2 and 3, showing another bundling mechanism withthe sheets delivered fiat.

Referring to said drawings, A is the longitudinal folder` and B thecutting', collecting, and folding cylinders, of a web-printing press,from which the folded sheets pass to tapes C, by which the sheets arecarried past a switch D and delivered to one or the other of two fliesE, according to the position of the switch. The switch D is operated bya cam-rod 10, having a bowl running in acam-groove 11 on cam F, theswitch thus being held in position to direct the required number ofsheets-say twenty-five sheetsvto the upper fly E, as in the position ofthe switch shown in Fig. 1, and the switch is then moved upward todeliver' the required number of sheets to the lower fly E, and so on,delivering alternately by the two flies. From the flies E the sheetspass to the bundling mechanism, which in the form shown in Figs. 2 and 3is as follows: On the frame or table G are mounted rolls or disks 12,which carry endless belts or chains 13, on which are mounted series offingers 14, arranged in pairs at distances apart suitable for receivingand holding between them the number of sheets desired, so that a bundleof sheets is collected between each pair of these lingers. These belts13 move slowly past the fly E and receive the successive papers from theguide 15, down which they pass with the fly, the speed of movement ofthe belts being according to the delivery of the sheets to enable eachsuccessive sheet to be fed in behind the preceding sheet. The tapes maybe driven by any suitable means, so as to be timed correctly relativelyto the fly. As shown, rolls 12 are driven by sprocket-chains 16 17 andsuitable gearing 18 19 from the ily-shaft 20, so as to move the beltsand fingers 14 at the desired speed.

The operation of the construction will be clear without a detaileddescription, it being understood that the required number of sheetscounted by the position of the switch D are delivered by one of theiiies E between a pair of the fingers 14 on the slowly-moving belts 13,so as to form a bundle of sheets, and the switch D is then shifted todirect the sheets to the other fiy E, during which delivery the nextpair of' fingers of the bundling mechanism which last received thesheets are brought into position for receiving the sheets, and thebundles of sheets on the tapes 13 of both deliveries are slowlyadvanced, giving the sheets time to dry thoroughly, and the bundles areremoved by hand or otherwise as the fingers pass around the outer roll12.

The bundling mechanism shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is substantially the sameas that shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the operation is the same, exceptthat the sheets are not delivered by the fly directly to the belts 13;but in connection with these belts stationary belts are used, upon whichthe sheets are piled flatwse IOO by the lly E, and the lingers 14 on thebelts 13 remove the complete piles or' sheets successively Vlrom thestationary belts onto the rvslowly-moving belts 13 lor linal delivery.

As shown in Figs. L1 and 5, the stationary belts 21 are mounted on rollsor disks 22 23, and the lingers 14 are timed so as to engage the rearend et' the pile of sheets when the pile is completed and the sheetsdirected by switch D to the other delivery7 and advance the pile ofsheets to the end of the belts 21, where they pass onto the belts 13,the belts 21 moving with the pile ot' sheets as the latter are advancedby the lingers 14, but being stationary when the sheets are being piledupon them.

lt will be understood that the invention is not to be limited to theexact construction or arrangement of the parts illustrated, but thatmedilieations may be made in this construetion while retaining theinvention claimed,

fhat l claim is 1. The combination with sheet-advancing means, ol" aplurality of deliveries, means for erating sheet-advancing means, of aplurality i of deliveries, means for counting the sheets and directingthe required number of sheets to the deliveries successively, andseparate pairs of lingers for each delivery mounted on an endlesscarrier and between which the edgewise from the deliveries to formbundles.

f1. The combination with sheet-advancing means, of a plurality ofdeliveries, means lor directing the required number of sheets to thedeliveries successively, and separate slowlyrnoving belts Yfor eachdelivery, said belts having pairs of lingers between which the countedsheets are received from the. deliveries to lorin bundles.

The combination with sheet-advancing means, of a plurality ol'deliveries, means lor counting the sheets and directing the requi rednumber of sheets to the deliveries successively, and continuously-movinglingers 14 for each delivery spaced apart at such distances as to bring`a set of lingers into position to take sheets lroin one delivery whenthe required number ol1 sheets have been delivered by the otherdelivery.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence ol twosubscribing witnesses.

W'l LLIA M .SPA LC l( H A VER.

W'itnesses:

F. lV. H. CRANE, Louis Roslin.

